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Film round-up: July 8, 2022
MARIA DUARTE reviews Brian and Charles, Thor: Love and Thunder, Rubikon and How to please a Woman
Film still from Brian and Charles
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JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
Brian and Charles (PG)
Directed by Jim Archer
★★★
THIS surreal comedy set in Wales about a lonely inventor who builds an AI robot as his friend may well prove an acquired taste but it is worth while seeing it with an open mind.
Based on a 2017 short of the same name also directed by Jim Archer and co-written by David Earl and Chris Hayward this is a bonkers, yet sweet and charming bromance tale shot in a mockumentary style.
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